zooplankton
/ˈzəʊ.ə.plaŋ(k).tən/
"zooplankton" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zooplankton” is uncommon English (frequency #59,142 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,142
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Free-floating small protozoa, crustaceans (such as krill), etc. and the eggs and larvae from larger animals.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zooplankton · zooplankton · English
zooplankton · rank #59,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,142
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH zesty
Nearest frequency peer: zesty (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “zooplankton”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- your's
your's
40,866 corpus weight
- yume
yume
40,864 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
40,863 corpus weight
- zesty
zesty
40,861 corpus weight
- zooplankton
zooplankton
40,859 corpus weight
- Zuni
Zuni
40,857 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “zooplankton” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zooplankton |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈzəʊ.ə.plaŋ(k).tən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “zooplankton” in English
Rare enough to double-check
zooplankton is uncommon English at frequency #59,142 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈzəʊ.ə.plaŋ(k).tən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Free-floating small protozoa, crustaceans (such as krill), etc. and the eggs and larvae from larger animals.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zooplankton, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From zoo- + plankton. The correct English form is zooplankton, spelled Z-O-O-P-L-A-N-K-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Free-floating small protozoa, crustaceans (such as krill), etc. and the eggs and larvae from larger animals.
Etymology
From zoo- + plankton.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).